How should an employee behave?

If you’re a reader of my blog, you may remember a post a couple of months ago called How Should a Manager Behave? In a store, the expectation of proper behavior is not a one way street. It’s not even a two way street. Actually, it’s not a street. It’s a store with many interactions […]

Oh man there’s a lot of water

It’s supposed to rain this whole week. It’s rained a lot the past couple of weeks. I woke up yesterday morning to my bed shaking because of a very very close lightning strike. Our rented house is gleefully showing where all the cracks in the basement are forming. I should start naming the rivers that […]

Taking weekends off

I’ve been writing blog posts for a bit now, and I’ve decided that the amount of time it takes to come up with something worth reading is the amount of time I’d like to spend doing some other projects. You will eventually see the fruits of those labors as well. And Sensitive Saturday was kinda […]

Local Artist

Quick post today. A couple of days ago, a nice man came into the gas station with a hand full of serpentine belt (for those unfamiliar with cars, it’s one of those rubber-band looking things in your engine that makes it difficult to drive if it shreds into a million pieces). His van was parked […]

Inspiration

Over the past week, I’ve been listening to and reading bits and pieces of a story that my wife is creating. It’s a damn clever story, and I’m thrilled to be able to help out with a lot of the plot and character development. I get to see and hear her clacking away on the […]

Priorities

Today was a typical spring day in Iowa. That is to say, tornadoes. I was lucky enough to be by myself in the gas station while a Tornado Warning was issued. (A Tornado Warning means there is a tornado on the ground near you. It means stop what you’re doing and take cover.) When the […]

Can’t sleep

So here I am, up at midnight. I have work in the morning, but I can’t rest. In a few hours, we’ll be getting news (hopefully good) about our future. Well, my wife’s future, but my future is pretty much irreversibly tangled with hers. I’m not going to go into detail about it, nor will […]

New Things

[Note: This post is inspired by MsKristina85 and a comment she made on my last post. Thanks!] I love to try new things. There are so many experiences out there that might seem weird or dangerous or even disgusting. I’ve gone skydiving. I’ve dressed up as the strange buffalo-headed god from Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. And […]

Blank Page

Here I am with my blog in front of me. A blank white page waiting for me to fill it. What do I put in it? Do I tell you yet again what I did yesterday? Do I complain about work again? Do I tell you how good I feel after running? I suppose I’ll […]

No Excuses

Short post today. I’m just writing about what it’s been like out here in Iowa-land for the past couple of days, and what it’s meant for me and my running. I’d like you to take a look at the date of this post. It’s May 3rd, 2013. And then I’d like you to take a […]